I am all for the plans for a new sports stadium at Billingham. I started going to Cleveland Park as a baby when it re-opened in the late 1960s until it closed down in 1996.

My dad took myself and my two brothers to the speedway every Thursday night and we used to travel from Bishop Middleham near Sedgefield.

Unlike football I have never seen any trouble between the rival fans and you see lots of families with young children watching.

I met my future wife at Cleveland Park and now live in Stockton. We now have two young children and take them up to Newcastle to see speedway and they enjoy it a lot and would love to see speedway return to this area so they can go more often.

TONY RICHARDSON, Stockton

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If David Scott's land has ongoing problems, who is it a problem for? I live close to the site and it doesn't bother me. I have heard a motorbike twice on the land in six months.

If I was Mr Scott, I would want the maximum return on my investment and that means utilising as much of the land as possible and for the complex to be operating seven days a week.

When planning permission is granted, and I'm sure it will be, there definitely will be problems.

With hundreds of people visiting the various leisure facilities every day, there is going to be a lot of traffic noise and air pollution along the access road wherever it's going to be.

I don't want an entertainment complex near my home, I may want to sell it one day.

Is alcohol and food going to be sold on the site? There are enough lager cans, crisp packets and pizza boxes thrown from cars along New Road already.

Noise seems to carry further on a night when daytime activities decrease. The only people in favour of this sports complex don't live anywhere near the site.

Is Mr Scott aware the site is a designated flood plain? This site also has an area of reed beds not owned by Mr Scott. They filter out pollutants from the land and return clean water to the river Tees. The reed beds are also home to reed warblers and other marshland birds.

Could it be Mr Scott is about to bring a new sport to the people of Teesside - "mud wrestling"?